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By Thomas Edison
Genius is 1 per cent. inspiration and 99 per cent. perspiration.
- Source
- Edison: His Life and Inventions, by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin, vol. 2, 1910 · Vol. 2, chapter on Edison's method in inventing, p. 607 (printed page number, seen)
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- Harper and Brothers, New York and London (Internet Archive scan of the 1910 first edition)
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Quoted in Edison: His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin (Harper and Brothers, 1910) as his "historic remark". The authors give no date or occasion for it. The popular wording "one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration" is a later rewording.